The difference between Hole and Lockdown
When used as nouns, hole means a hollow place or cavity, whereas lockdown means the confinement of people in their own rooms (or cells) as a security measure after a disturbance.
Hole is also verb with the meaning: to make holes in (an object or surface).
check bellow for the other definitions of Hole and Lockdown
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Hole as a noun:
A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure. An opening in a solid.
Examples:
"There’s a hole in my shoe.  nowrap Her stocking has a hole in it."
"There’s a hole in my bucket."
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Hole as a noun:
In games. A subsurface standard-size hole, also called cup, hitting the ball into which is the object of play. Each hole, of which there are usually eighteen as the standard on a full course, is located on a prepared surface, called the green, of a particular type grass. The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes. The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman. A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in future, control with a friendly pawn. A card (also called a hole card) dealt face down thus unknown to all but its holder; the status in which such a card is. In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.
Examples:
"I played 18 holes yesterday.  nowrap The second hole today cost me three strokes over par."
"The shortstop ranged deep into the hole to make the stop."
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Hole as a noun (archaeology, slang):
An excavation pit or trench.
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Hole as a noun (figuratively):
A weakness, a flaw
Examples:
"I have found a hole in your argument."
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Hole as a noun (informal):
A container or receptacle.
Examples:
"car hole;  brain hole'"
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Hole as a noun (physics):
In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
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Hole as a noun (computing):
A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
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Hole as a noun (slang anatomy):
An orifice, in particular the anus. When used with shut it always refers to the mouth.
Examples:
"Just shut your hole!"
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Hole as a noun (Ireland, Scotland, particularly in the phrase "get one's hole"):
Sex, or a sex partner.
Examples:
"Are you going out to get your hole tonight?"
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Hole as a noun (informal, with "the"):
Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
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Hole as a noun (slang):
An undesirable place to live or visit; a hovel.
Examples:
"His apartment is a hole!"
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Hole as a noun (figurative):
Difficulty, in particular, debt.
Examples:
"If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging."
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Hole as a noun (graph theory):
A chordless cycle in a graph.
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Hole as a verb (transitive):
To make holes in (an object or surface).
Examples:
"Shrapnel holed the ship's hull."
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Hole as a verb (transitive, by extension):
To destroy.
Examples:
"She completely holed the argument."
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Hole as a verb (intransitive):
To go into a hole.
Examples:
"rfquotek Ben Jonson"
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Hole as a verb (transitive):
To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
Examples:
"Woods holed a standard three foot putt"
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Hole as a verb (transitive):
To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.
Examples:
"to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars"
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Hole as a verb:
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Hole as an adjective:
Examples:
"Such was the arrangement of the alphabet over the hole North"
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Lockdown as a noun (in an institution, such as a prison or school):
The confinement of people in their own rooms (or cells) as a security measure after a disturbance.
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Lockdown as a noun (US):
A contrivance to fasten logs together in rafting.